Abigail “Abby” Blagg’s smile with two front teeth missing could light up a room.

It’s been 11 years now since anyone has seen Abby, who had freckles, a pug nose and short sandy blond hair.

She lived in a nice home in a cul-de-sac at 2253 Pine Terrace Court in the Redlands Mesa neighborhood in Mesa County near Grand Junction. The Blaggs were renting.

Her folks, Michael and Jennifer Blagg, had moved from Simpsonville, South Carolina 10 months earlier. They had also lived in Texas, California and Arizona over the course of 10 years. Neighbors would say they were reclusive but a model family, nonetheless.

Michael, 38, a former Navy lieutenant commander and helicopter pilot and nuclear engineer, was an operations manager at AMETEK Inc., which manufactures truck gauges. He would sometimes dash out of his office if he was needed at home.

Jennifer, 34, was a stay-at-home mom, who volunteered at Abby’s school, Bookcliff Christian School, collected rocks and jewelry and took Jazzercise classes three days a week.

so sad..hope she is safe either here on earth or in heaven..bless you abby

http://www.facebook.com/justin.hinman.92 Justin Hinman

Remember this little girl and her mother’s memory……….

;)

kpax

so many grammatical errors, misspellings, improper tense, etc.

Anonymous

There’s a reason for this. The DP fired most of their copy editors, along with any writers that were to the left of Rush Limbaugh. If you want a quality product, sadly, it ain’t the DP any more.

Glenn L

English has taken a back seat in today’s educational system, and when you correct someone they become very offended and accuse you of racism or some other insensitivity.

http://www.facebook.com/jdbenish James D Benish

Whats up with the grammar critique you idiot?

redcody

I’m with kpax. It’s irritating to see people who are paid to speak or write make spelling and grammar mistakes.

http://www.facebook.com/drhoecker Dana Hoecker

you cry over mistakes in grammer when people died,you are messed up

Cory Doyle

The grammar isn’t great. I find it only slightly obtrusive though. More disrupting is that I have to click 9 links to read the entire story. How about a scroll bar DP, or do you really need those hits that bad? I made it through 3, next time, and every time thereafter it will likely be 1. Unless the story is about PFM of course.

Glenn L

The entire video has been on you tube for about 2 years now.

Jessica

The grammar is killing me. This is a great story, but the mistakes within are so distracting! DP can hire me to edit, or Kirk could hire me as a freelance ghost-editor!

Molly

If Jennifer was shot in the face while she slept, how in the world would there be no blood splatter? Doubt she would be sleeping on the floor…

http://twitter.com/topscientist Top Scientist

A pillow was over her head, genius.

http://www.facebook.com/drhoecker Dana Hoecker

i am the one who told the 911 dispatch where the bodies were but they ignored me and tapes could prove it but they probally tossed them out.they did not want to pay reward and as well i told them abby was in dumpster as well but they laughed me off,i even know where her body lies but again they ignored me since day one .being a seer i saw.the sheriffs office hid facts in this case on purpose because they had an event ongoing with me thus damning abby to her grave eternally .i called the day the story broke on news for a time frame reference.i was never asked a single question, hell i could have done it and gotten away with it due to the negligent dispatch throwing away my information.just saying,things are not always forgotten when lives are at stake every clue was vital,i even know more what led to this event but again they only cared about the news coverage not finding answers.the sheriffs office is not such good guys in the end

http://twitter.com/topscientist Top Scientist

A seer? Get psychiatric help.

nancy

Only God and Abby know and he will be hearing from BOTH of them again some day.

retailthread

As a former journalist, I am embarrassed for the so called “writer” of this article – it’s one of the worst professional pieces I’ve ever read. It reads like a bad 9th grade assignment from someone with literacy problems. Surely the Denver Post can’t be serious publishing this sorry excuse for an article. And saying there are no sub-editors at the Denver Post is hardly and explanation. Kirk Mitchell claims to have been writing since 1998 and yet he doesn’t have a basic grasp of grammar, spelling and adjective use. Seriously Denver Post – surely you can employ someone less embarrassing than this.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.